In Search of Eddie Riff
| In Search of Eddie Riff | ||||
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| Studio album by Andy Mackay | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | February 1974 | |||
| Studio | Island Studios, Basing Street, London | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
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Island (original 1974 release and 1976 re-release) Polydor (1977 reissue) EG |
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| Producer | Andy Mackay | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Trouser Press | (mixed) |
In Search of Eddie Riff is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, first released on Island Records in 1974.
The album was released during a brief hiatus from Roxy Music's recording schedule. A first version came out in 1974, with nine tracks, and the lead-off single was a jazz cover of "Ride of the Valkyries". Later, after a single, "Wild Weekend," which was not on the original album was released in 1975, the album was re-released with a different track listing; this is the version that was issued on all other vinyl and cassette reissues of the album. Three songs were added to the new version (one slightly renamed and one very heavily edited), and two songs removed. A CD version released in 1999 contains all the songs (although the 'Time Regained" b-side was not restored to its full five-minute length) with the addition of three live rehearsal tracks.
Mackay has said that he intended for the album to showcase his different musical interests: "classical music, Motown, fifties rock and roll instrumentals, film music, electronic effects and partly for my wife Jane, who I had recently married, country and western."
Reviews were mixed, and the Trouser Press Record Guide has described it as "merely a display of his technical abilities." AllMusic, however, calls it "highly listenable" and "fun stuff from the artsy realm of serious U.K. musicians" which overall is "good background party music" with some moments of transcendent simplicity.
Version 1 (1974)
Version 2 (1976)
CD Version (2003)
Recorded and mixed and Island Studios in February 1974. Engineer: Phill Brown. Assistant engineers: Dave Hutchins, Richard Elen, Brian Pickering.
Additional personnel listed on 1975 re-release...
Added tracks on version 2 likely recorded in June 1975 in the same studio with the same engineers.
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